In 2009, I had just finished my Bachelors Degree in Economics from UPLB (University of the Philippines - Los Banos) and I was ready to make my first steps out into the real world.

My father was living in Kuwait at the time, so he helped me to get a great internship at the Philippines Embassy (Labor Department) – not completely independent, or even adventurous looking back through all of my experiences since then, but at the time this was a huge leap for me, one that would eventually lead me to corners of the world I never dreamed I would see in my lifetime. That was a month after my college graduation and it was my first time to travel internationally!